No more Palestinian refugees

By Gwynne DyerSep. 5, 2018

The Jewish claim to Palestine is based on the idea that the ancestors of today’s Jews were made refugees by the Romans about two thousand years ago. If the rights of Palestinian refugees can be legitimately extinguished after the first generation, the Jewish claim becomes equally invalid, writes Gwynne Dyer.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump, pictured at the East Room of the White House in February 2017. Mr. Trump recently announced that the U.S. is halting funding for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which has long provided aid to Palestinian refugees. Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Who said this? “The weak crumble, are slaughtered and are erased from history while the strong, for good or for ill, survive. The strong are respected, and alliances are made with the strong, and in the end peace is made with the strong.” Nietzsche? Goebbels? You-know-who?

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